Women-Led Startups Are The Key To New Job Creation: Report via: fastcompany.com

Women-Led Startups Are The Key To New Job Creation: Report

via fastcompany.com

BY E.B. BOYDWed Sep 28, 2011

So says a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. "If we’re looking for an answer to jobs," Kauffman vice president Lesa Mitchell tells us, "it’s right in front of our face."

The country is in a recession, and Washington is tangling over how to create new jobs, but, according to a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there’s a fairly simple potential source of them sitting right under our noses.

Women start high-growth companies, like those in high tech, at lower rates than men do, Kauffman-supported research has found. But the reason for this is systemic, rather than due to women’s innate capacity for entrepreneurialism, says the paper, titled “Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers.”

See the complete article posted at: http://www.fastcompany.com/1783387/women-led-startups-the-key-to-new-job-creation-report

Woman-run Business Profile: "Brain Freeze" Clothing

Brain Freeze designs unique, creative, and sometimes humorous clothing for infants. Some of the designs are so popular that they are also available for adults. Other products that will be coming soon are dog clothing, infant jewelry, and notecards. The company is currently in the process of switching over from the name "Little Smarty Pantz" to Brain Freeze.


The woman behind Brain Freeze is Joy Tiernan who is originally from Detroit, MI. She is a graphic designer who became bored with the pastel colors of most childrens clothing and started designing humorous and unique t-shirts for her nephews. After getting a lot of positive feedback about her designs, she decided to create an entire clothing line based on these original humorous designs. Each piece is quality hand made. You can buy her designs on her website http://www.littlesmartypantz.com or on her etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleSmartyPantz. 


Be sure to become a fan on facebook to receive information about t-shirt giveaways, new designs and more at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brain-Freeze-unique-clothing/245137688849569


Your kids will love the cute designs and you may even want to get a humorous shirt for yourself! For more information, visit the links below:


http://www.littlesmartypantz.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleSmartyPantz
http://littlesmartypantz.blogspot.com/